Sissano language should not be confused with Arop-Sissano language.
| Sissano | |
| Region: | West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Speakers: | 300 |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Western |
| Fam5: | Schouten |
| Fam6: | Siau |
| Script: | Latin |
| Map2: | Lang Status 20-CR.svg |
| Iso3: | sso |
| Glotto: | siss1243 |
| Glottorefname: | Sissano |
| Notice: | IPA |
Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.[1] 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami wiped out most of the population.
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /i/ | pronounced as /u/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /e/ | pronounced as /(ə)/ | pronounced as /o/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /a/ |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| voiced | (pronounced as /ink/) | (pronounced as /ink/) | (pronounced as /ink/) | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | |||||
| Approximant | central | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
Languages of the World
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